In good time too, for the constables came in at the thought of such a disturbance, and wanted to take us in charge.
"But the gentlemen present, being military men, would not hear of this.

Out came Mac's rapier, and that of half-a-dozen others; and the constables were then told to do their duty if they liked, or to take a crown-piece, and leave us to ourselves.

Off they went; and presently, in a couple of coaches, the Count and his friends, I and mine, drove off to the fields behind Montague House.

Oh that vile coffee-house! why did I enter it?
"We came to the ground.

Honest Macshane was my second, and much disappointed because the second on the other side would not make a fight of it, and exchange a few passes with him; but he was an old major, a cool old hand, as brave as steel, and no fool.